Quotes About Philosophy

The essence of technology is by no means anything technological.

There is more than a mere suspicion that the scientist who comes to ask metaphysical questions and turns away from metaphysical answers may be afraid of those answers.

Siri, what is the meaning of life? She answers: To think about questions like this. Huh. Good one.

Dr. Turing of Cambridge says that the soul is an illusion and that all that defines us as human beings can be reduced to a series of mechanical operations.

Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.

I am thankful that thorns have roses.

It's an ongoing problem, an ongoing situation, life is. It's just life, and it never stops and it never will. You just be thankful for what you've got, and move on.

A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues. [Lat., Gratus animus est una virtus non solum maxima, sed etiam mater virtutum onmium reliquarum.]

I expect death to be nothingness and, for removing me from all possible fears of death, I am thankful to atheism.

For the great benefits of our being- our life, health, and reason-we look upon ourselves.

Life is lived on its ownother's shoulders are used only at the time of funeral.

Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.

Time is a mind construct. It's not real.

The true science of martial arts means practicing them in such a way that they will be useful at any time, and to teach them in such a way that they will be useful in all things.

Life is a waste of time and time is a waste of life, so let's all get wasted and have the time of our lives.

After the conversations about Indian philosophy, some of the ideas of Quantum Physics that had seemed so crazy suddenly made much more sense.

Space and time are the framework within which the mind is constrained to construct its experience of reality.

Now is the time to understand That all your ideas of right and wrong Were just a child's training wheelsTo be laid aside When you finally live With veracity And love.

The great cosmic illusion is a hierophany.... One is devoured by Time, not because one lives in Time, but because one believes in its reality, and therefore forgets or despises eternity.

Being and time determine each other reciprocally, but in such a manner that neither can the former - Being - be addressed as something temporal nor can the latter - time - be addressed as a being.

To kill time is not murder, it's suicide.

Time is not at all what it seems. It does not flow in only one direction, and the future exists simultaneously with the past.

Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time in essays.

She was ready to deny the existence of space and time rather than admit that love might not be eternal.